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karpathy / makemore

makemore

An autoregressive character-level language model for making more things

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

An autoregressive character-level language model for making more things

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-09-08 17:16:59 UTC to 2023-04-05 21:21:16 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 52022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 192022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 3

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 52022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 122022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 192022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 262022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 32022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 102022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 172022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 242022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 312022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 72022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 142022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 212022-11-21 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 282022-11-28 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 52022-12-05 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 122022-12-12 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 192022-12-19 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 262022-12-26 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 22023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 92023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 162023-01-16 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 232023-01-23 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 302023-01-30 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 62023-02-06 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 132023-02-13 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 202023-02-20 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 272023-02-27 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 62023-03-06 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 132023-03-13 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 202023-03-20 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 272023-03-27 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 32023-04-03 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-10 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I'm doing an ML apprenticeship [1] these weeks and Karpathy's videos are part of it. We've been deep down into them. I found them excellent. All concepts he illustrates are crystal clear in his mind (even though they are complicated concepts themselves) and that shows in his explanations. Also, the way he builds up everything is magnificent. Starting from basic python classes, to derivatives and gradient descent, to micrograd [2] and then from a bigram counting model [3] to makemore [4] and nanoGPT [5] [1]: https://www.foundersandcoders.com/ml [2]: https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd [3]: https://github.com/karpathy/randomfun/blob/master/lectures/m... [4]: https://github.com/karpathy/makemore [5]: https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
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